pubic houses per commissions rules I was forced to sell my tenancy back to a new
brewery. Over the years I had managed to achieve a H.N.D in business studies plus
a Cert Ed in education. This gave me the chance to work at Halesowen College where
I spent the next few years working along side the youth of the day, helping them
to lean their future in the catering industry. Sadly our eldest daughter died of
meningitis at 19 this brought us down to realize the vulnerability of us all. Working
as a College Governor gave opportunity to meet many MP’s and talk to the people who
can change our lives. These days gave me a balanced view of all ages and awoke in
me to see what I could do to help my fellow neighbour. Over the last 48 years I have
managed to go through every emotion a person can feel in their life, so on this base
I feel the Manifesto laid down by the UKIP party is the way my journey will take
me. What I want to do is to take the people who want to live in an area free from
crime and grime and with a clean environment to grow in, to retire in and to make
sure that our feelings are heard at a grass route level at council meetings forming
a proper council who represent the individual sitting at home. After retiring I work
at the Black Country Living Museum as a Guide / Demonstrator, so I still can listen
to all ages and to lean what concerns all people.
Raymond Franklin
Beecher Street, Hasbury, Halesowen, B63 2DP
Contact - ukip-halesowen@hotmail.co.uk
After spending the 1960’s in the Merchant Navy, mostly in the south Pacific, I settled
down and married in Huddersfield moving to Redditch New Town in the early 1970’s.
My wife and I started a family and I began to get involved in working with many groups
of people from all over the country in helping a new town to grow. We had two wonderful
daughters and I worked for a local company. As my family grew, I started my own business
in the entertainment industry, which took me around the country and Europe also the
US and Canada. Travelling from town to town I gradually saw how the changing economic
climate effected the way families lived. I saw a town called Consett in the North
East become a ghost town with the closure of the steel works putting thousands of
families on the bread line. This a town like Redditch, a town where I lived. Government
polices were at the route of many changes suffered by the local working man. Working
in the licensed trade by now I worked for Ansells, managing licensed houses around
the midland area. Purchasing my own tenancy in Whiteheath in the late 1980’s. With
the advent of the Monopolies Commission (circa 1990) and the selling of many